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Xiaomeng Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Guided by both the interactionist and sociocultural learning theories, this study investigates the interactive communications in text-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) and face-to-face (FTF) oral communication environments and the impacts they bring to subsequent L2 Chinese speaking. Learners' perspectives on using…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Oral Language
David Barny – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Following the social turn in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the 1990s (Block, 2003), researchers have increasingly focused on the emic perspective of learners. As a result, identity, subjectivity, and agency have come to the forefront in SLA research. In an effort to afford learners the means to negotiate meaning more freely and to position…
Descriptors: French, Perspective Taking, Computer Simulation, Educational Games
McDonough, Kelli M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In 21st century classrooms, students use a variety of languages to communicate their ideas in both the spoken and written word. These languages vary between standard and nonstandard forms of English, and each speaker may alter their language use based on context or intended audience. One unique language form that appears in many classrooms is…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Technology Uses in Education, Secondary School Students
Qi Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Informed by sociocultural theories, collaborative writing (CW), a writing activity that involved two or more writers who share and exchange knowledge and negotiate decision-making to complete a single written text (Storch, 2002, 2013), has been found to benefit the second language (L2) students' language learning by a substantial body of empirical…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication, Cooperative Learning, Chinese
Rosa Haydee Addis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
English language learners (ELLs) have struggled with learning a new language and content online within the U.S. school system. The research problem on which this study was based was that because ELLs have unique cultural and linguistic challenges while learning online, a better understanding of teachers' experiences of how transcaring strategies…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Online Courses, Communities of Practice, Secondary School Teachers
Ivan K. Banov – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This work examines how social media users learn language alongside their progression of becoming active participants in online social spaces. Using an ecolinguistic view, it explores how the process of posting and commenting on Reddit (one of the world's most popular social sites) is both afforded and constrained by the unique sociocultural…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media
Brenda Sarmiento Quezada – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnographic case study of three displaced Syrian students living in Mexico who were undergoing their university studies. Drawing upon "thirdspace" and language ideology theories this study examined how three Syrian displaced students in Mexico created spaces where they used language to construct and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Refugees, Language Usage
Yara Olive Paterne Loua – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explored the effect of Gagne's nine events of instruction on student academic achievement and satisfaction during an online English class for French speakers. A group of 30 Facebook users from French-speaking countries in North and Sub-Saharan Africa participated in the research. They were divided randomly into two groups: one…
Descriptors: French, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liling Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A key goal in World Language Education (WLE) is challenging learners' preconceived notions about other cultures, aligning with the leading intercultural competence models, national language teaching standards, and the emerging Transformative Language Learning and Teaching (TLLT) paradigm. However, challenging stereotypes remains a concern to…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transformative Learning
Al-Hunayan, Jinan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The outbreak of COVID-19 forced the world population to find new ways to improve their productivity. It also significantly changed the course of education and instruction entirely. Like many students worldwide, adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students have been dramatically impacted by the sudden switch to online courses due to the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, COVID-19
Zhou, Jingyi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
COVID-19 pandemic has profound global impact not only as a health crisis, but also as a time period that gave birth to radical social changes. Following the suggested measure of social distancing, responses of US educational system--shifting the mode of instruction to online only--present the significance of technology towards the contemporary…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Technology Integration
Al Ghamdi, Rowida – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigates the politeness strategies employed by Saudi EFL teachers when expressing their disagreements on Twitter. It examines the factors affecting Saudi EFL teachers' choice of politeness and disagreement strategies. It compares Saudi EFL teachers' disagreement expressions with those of American ESL teachers on Twitter. Four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Taichi Yamashita – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation reports on the evaluation of a computer-mediated collaborative animation description task, where synchronous corrective feedback (SCF) serves as the primary source for grammar learning. The evaluation was conducted in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing program at a large research university in the United States. Using…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing
Lori Lye – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Duolingo is arguably the most popular language learning app available today, as measured by its metric of achieving 500 million downloads in 2020, yet remarkably little research has been conducted regarding its implementation or efficacy as a language-learning tool. The handful of studies that do exist have found positive outcomes, although…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs
Xiaorong Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study examines learners' experiences in the development of written complexities during Discussion Board (DB) assignments in an Advanced university level Chinese class. Discussion Board was chosen as the avenue for written complexity development because it provides learners a supplementary space with additional time and…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Chinese, Second Language Learning